Between Freedom and Bondage: Race, Party, and Voting Rights in the Antebellum North

By Christopher Malone

Book Overview

Between Freedom and Bondage looks at the fluctuations of black suffrage in the ante-bellum North, using the four states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island as examples. In each of these states, a different outcome was obtained for blacks in their quest to share the vote. By analyzing the various outcomes of state struggles, Malone offers a framework for understanding and explaining how the issue of voting rights for blacks unfolded between the drafting of the Constitution, and the end of the Civil War.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041595696X
• ISBN13: 9780415956963
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"